Las Vegas COVID-19 patient out of isolation

Southern Hills Hospital is celebrating a COVID-19 patient who's recovering and going home.

A VERY SPECIAL SEND OFF ATSOUTHERN HILLS HOSPITAL...AFTER THE STAFF WAS ABLE TOSEND THEIR FIRST COVID-19PATIENT HOME...AND NOW DOCTORS BELIEVE THATPATIENT CAN BE USED TO HELPOTHERS!13 ACTION NEWS ANCHOR NINAPORCIUNCULA EXPLAINS THE PLANDOCTORSHAVE COME UP WITH.IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO HEARSTORIES ABOUT PATIENTSRECOVERING.AFTER SPENDING NEARLY THREEWEEKS IN THE HOSPITAL, ALFREDHAS BEEN SYMPTOM FREE FOR MORETHAN A WEEK NOW.ON HIS WAY OUT OF THE HOSPITAL--- ALFRED THANKED THOSE WHOHELPED SAVE HIS LIFE."YOU GUYS GAVE ME A SECONDCHANCE AT LIFE I COULD NEVERTHANK YOU ENOUGH," ALFRED SAIDTO THE DOCTOR AND NURSES THATCARED FOR HIM."YOU ARE PUTTING YOUR LIVES ONTHE LINE FOR ALL OF US, AND IREALLY APPRECIATE THAT."ON HIS WAY OUT, MEDICAL STAFFLINED THE HALLWAYS TO CHEER FORALFRED'S RECOVERY, ASPOKESPERSON FROM SOUTHERNHILLS HOSPITAL TOLD US...ALFRED WAS NEAR- DEATH AFTERBEING ADMITTED TO THE ICU ANDPUT ON A VENTILATOR ON MARCH23RD.HE HAD UNDERLYING CONDITIONS.BUT HIS DOCTOR TRIED A RESCUETREATMENT CALLED 'PRO-NING'WHICH INVOLVES FLIPPING APATIENT ONTO THEIR STOMACH.DR.CHRISTOPHER VOSCOPOULOS, THEMEDICAL DIRECTOR FOR THE ICUSAYS ALFRED IS NOW HELPINGOTHER PATIENTS FIGHT OFFCOVID-19.ALFRED DONATED SOME OF HISBLOOD PLASMA.THE CONCEPT HERE IS THAT ANINDIVIDUAL WHO HAS BEENEXPOSED TO THE CORONAVIRUSNOW HAS IMMUNITY.THEY HAVE CREATED PLASMA CELLSWHICH HAVE CREATED ANTIBODIESAND WHAT W4E CAN DO THEN IS WECAN TAKE THOSE ANTIBODIES ANDINFUSWE THEM INTO PATIENTS THATARE CRITICALLY ILL.VOSCOPOLOUS BELIEVES THIS WILLWORK...NOTING REPORTS OUT OF CHINAINVOLVING A SMALL NUMBER OFPATIENTS WHERE THIS TYPETREATMENT SHOWED PROMISE.WRAP//ADLIBMORE THAN 400 NEVADANS HAVESIGNED UP TO JOIN THE FRONTLINES OF THEPANDEMIC.THE GOVERNOR STARTED THE